Fossils

The Burke Museum and College of Engineering are collaborating to scan and 3D print a large-scale mammoth.

An extinct animal often cited as a ‘missing link’ between modern seals and their four-limbed, land-dwelling ancestors.

How does competition between species affect their long-term evolution?

Raked by vigorous winds, with not a blade of grass in sight, Peru’s desert coast looks remarkably different from its past.

How tiny fossilized plant particles in Costa Rica can be used to reconstruct past landscapes.

Burke paleontologists collected the partial skull of what's likely a Columbian mammoth after it was found along an eroded bluff near Sequim.

What can the fossil record tell us about how seals and sea lions evolved into the animals they are today?

Fossil baleen whales from the Pacific Northwest contain insights into how the largest creatures on earth evolved.

Tiny organisms called foraminifera have a big story to tell about the health of Puget Sound.